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Vol 7, #21: June 2012

Cover: Young people seated on the curb of a street in Havana

Photo: Juan Antonio Madrazo

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Table of Contents

Publisher’s Note

From the Editor

Reflections on the Race Problem in Cuba

Beating about the Bush or Beating a Drum

José Hugo Fernández

Current Details, Dangers and Challenges in the Race Debate in Cuba

Rogelio Montesinos

Cuba: Indigency and Race

Gloria Llopis Prendes

Feast, Race and Power

Manuel Cuesta Morúa

Parametration and Racism in Cuban Cultural Politics

Victor Manuel Domínguez

Racial Hatred: An Inescapable Legacy?

Aramis de Valle

The Color of the Crime

Hildebrando Chaviano Montes

Cuba: May 20^th’s Other Color

Fernando Palacios Mogár

To be a Black Man or Woman and Not Die Trying

Lucas Garve

Democracy: A Foundation Against Racial Discrimination

Eroisis González Suárez

Profiles

Yoslainy Pérez Derrick

Leonardo Calvo Cárdenas

Tributes

A Forgotten Poet: Marcelino Arozarena

Jorge Olivera Castillo

Art and Literature

A Playwright Who Thinks Out Loud

Juan Antonio Madrazo Luna

Las Krudas: Those Quasi-Paradigmatic Black Cuban Rappers

María I. Faguaga Iglesias

The Falsification of History in Guriérrez Alea’s and

Moreno Fraginals’ La última cena

Jorge Camacho

Parallel Views

NTIC’s, the Digital Divide and Citizen Empowerment

Rafel Campoamor

A Strategy for an Independent Civil Society

Moisés Leonardo Rodríguez

Prisoners of Color

Grievous Abyss I

Guillermo Ordoñez Lizama

Marcelino Arozarena poet (1912-1996)